The meeting Tuesday marks the first time a US president will be meeting with CEOs from the "big three" automakers since President Barack Obama cracked down on fuel-efficiency standards in 2011, according to Reuters.

Trump has made several public comments about keeping auto manufacturing in the US.

In November, Trump took credit for Ford keeping a manufacturing plant in the US instead of moving it to Mexico. Ford, however, said it had never been planning to move the plant itself; it had considered shifting production of one of its vehicles from its Louisville plant to Mexico, a shift the company said wouldn't have resulted in job cuts at the Louisville facility.

Trump also sent out a tweet earlier in January threatening to tax General Motors for manufacturing its cars abroad. GM wrote in a statement at the time that most of the Chevy Cruze vehicles sold in the US were produced in Ohio. GM does manufacture an international model of its Chevy Cruze in Mexico, some units of which are sold in the US.

Some automakers have already made moves independently of Trump to keep manufacturing in the US.

In early January, Ford announced plans to put $700 million into its Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan as part of a five-year, $4.5 billion investment in electric and autonomous vehicles. The Flat Rock plant is expected to grow by 700 employees as a result. Fields said the investment was not a result of a deal made with Trump but did show a vote of confidence in Trump's pro-business policies.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who met with Trump on Monday, is building a massive battery plant, called the Gigafactory, in Sparks, Nevada, that is expected to employ 6,500 people when it is completed in 2020. Tesla, however, is also interested in building a second Gigafactory in Europe.